Kamchatka Volcanos

[RR]

I saw an adventure company type slide show Saturday night. It was about flatwater kayak tripping on the wild side. During the show there was a Kamchatka Penninsula segment (think eastern Siberia). The party was heloed to the summit of a volcano so they could glissade to hike out to a river and paddle down to the Beiring Strait. The were on a medium sized volcano and glissaded for 7000 vertical feet at over 30 degrees for all but the lowest section.

I saw a photo of a larger neighboring volcano with dozens of broad chutes running 9000 vertical feet showing in the foreground. The same photo showed 4 more peaks of similar proportion and quantity of terrain. The report is that mid-May to mid-July is the time.

I may never get there, but some of y'alls might.

Link: Heli Sking, note the extra hourly rate for the helocopter time (http://www.travelkamchatka.com/heliskiing.htm)

[Frankontour]

Ish... Russia !
Interesting and nice pix, but I'm not sure that I would go ski in that place... cause it seems me that those volcanoes are pretty active, these days.

[M@]

Gotta work on my pitch for this one:
"Hey Hun: instead of taking the kids to disneyworld, how about we go heli skiing on volcanos in russia?"

I think she'd have a blast, but it's gonna be several years before she'd do it without the kids. And I doubt the chopper has a changing table.

Thanks for the link though, I've had heli skiing as a vaca idea for a while.

[el-bagr]

In the TGR movie I saw, the heli-skiing out of Tulsequah, BC and Haines, AK looks like some of the best I've seen. Huge 60-70 degree walls of fluted snow.

Tulsequah Heliskiing (http://www.tqhheliskiing.com/rates/tgh_frame1.html): 115, 000 feet / 35,000 meters, CD $ 8228.00 per person

or the much less expensive
Alaska Heliskiing (http://www.alaskaheliskiing.com/flash/index.html) in Haines

But those Kamchatka slopes do look cool when the snow is up.

[Skilasnow]

That looks pretty inexpensive if you have a full helo! Still beyond my budget but someday...

Franko: come on, what are the chances, it makes it more exciting...

[TenSeven]

Here's a Russian volcano with lots of snow...and smoke...and ash.

Siberian Volcano (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/May2003/Chikurachki.TMOA2003133_lrg.jpg)

[Frankontour]

SkiLasLeñas:

Franko: come on, what are the chances, it makes it more exciting... Volcano eruptions update... funny... volcanic updates on each weeks actually, for one in those mountains ;)

Karymsky, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia (http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/current_volcs/karymsky/index.html)

Oh, another one in those mountains with updates each weeks (this is rare... each weeks)

Kliuchevskoi, Kamchatka, Russia (http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/current_volcs/kliuchevskoi/kliuchevskoi.html)

Agree that it brings some thrill, though ;)

There is even a movie I've seen with skiers taken in a volcanic eruptions in a ski area... interesting to see (it was in the Cascades... not a real story, of course, although it almost occurred at Mammoth in 1980).

[RR]

hey guys those are some fantastic links...skiers love terrain, geologists like terrain, volcanoligists love major terrain...

There's a skiers dream job!

Iceland, Greenland, Kamchatka.....the list is long, much like the vert

:happydog: loves vert

[el-bagr]

Mt St Helens used to have good skiing...

The Russian helo rates aren't bad at all -- though perhaps flying in to base camp is...

[Castlerock]

Dosvedanya Tovarisch! (sp) Getting in an MI-8 is taking your life in your hands. I'll pay the premium for a well maintained A-Star

[RR]

"Go with God, Friend", oh yeah, looking at people getting into those choppers was like looking at folks betting their life savings on three card monte!

Still, 9000 verts!

[elwood]

el-bagr:
In the TGR movie I saw, the heli-skiing out of Tulsequah, BC and Haines, AK looks like some of the best I've seen. Huge 60-70 degree walls of fluted snow.

Tulsequah Heliskiing (http://www.tqhheliskiing.com/rates/tgh_frame1.html): 115, 000 feet / 35,000 meters, CD $ 8228.00 per person

or the much less expensive
Alaska Heliskiing (http://www.alaskaheliskiing.com/flash/index.html) in Haines

But those Kamchatka slopes do look cool when the snow is up. Heli skiing in Alaska. That's just awesome. So many places to ski, but not enough time or money.

I've been dreaming about this:
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/387861/2.jpg

[Castlerock]

Now that is an "elwoody"

[el-bagr]

We'd get discount rates if we booked a whole group at once...